The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 465 - The Media Lie About Everything

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00:00:30.420 Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified before the Senate yesterday on his report.

00:00:37.480 And it turns out, you're going to be shocked to hear this,

00:00:40.020 that the mainstream media have been lying to us about everything.

00:00:43.160 On the same day, the New York Times reported that President Trump was redefining Judaism as a nationality,

00:00:50.180 sparking widespread hysteria, comparisons to the Nazis,

00:00:53.780 before it turned out that the report was completely false.

00:00:56.880 Then, as the cherry on top of the fake news Sunday,

00:01:00.040 CNN's Don Lemon had a meltdown on air over a meme, over nothing.

00:01:06.560 We will examine why and how the fake news lies so well.

00:01:09.960 Then, a new study shows the loneliness epidemic is affecting the young more than the old.

00:01:16.120 That's not good news.

00:01:17.140 Finally, the mailbag.

00:01:17.960 All that and more.

00:01:19.000 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:20.880 The media have been lying to us about everything.

00:01:32.420 Now, I know that's not exactly a man bites dog story.

00:01:35.300 We've known that generally for a long time.

00:01:37.280 But so many fake stories, so many important fake stories, collapsed yesterday all at once.

00:01:44.680 And we got to watch it in real time.

00:01:46.740 I want to begin, before we get to the actual meat of these lies,

00:01:51.600 the actual meat of this hysteria and nonsense,

00:01:55.000 I want to start this delicious meal of fake news with the dessert first.

00:01:59.140 I want to start it with that little cherry on top of the chocolate sundae.

00:02:01.980 I want to start it with CNN, where CNN's Don Lemon decided to skip over all of the actual news

00:02:11.960 and have a breakdown, an on-air hysterical breakdown,

00:02:16.880 because President Trump's campaign team tweeted out a meme.

00:02:23.600 In addition to all the lies and all the blustering at tonight's rally,

00:02:29.280 Trump's war room posted a meme on Twitter today

00:02:32.620 showing Trump as the supervillain Thanos from the Marvel Avengers movies,

00:02:38.500 dispatching his Democratic enemies.

00:02:41.500 Take a look at this.

00:02:42.560 I am inevitable.

00:02:54.100 On this solemn day, I recall that the first order of business for members of...

00:03:00.560 What are we, in junior high school?

00:03:13.620 Like, what the hell?

00:03:15.360 What is this? 0.95

00:03:20.200 Like, what?

00:03:21.340 What?

00:03:21.820 I cannot believe that I'm even having to report this on the news.

00:03:36.680 This is crazy.

00:03:41.380 This is literally crazy. 0.92

00:03:44.060 Are you people insane? 0.94

00:03:45.100 It just, it goes on. 0.95

00:03:50.880 In some ways, it even gets better.

00:03:54.060 The key takeaway, though, here for me is that Don Lemon and CNN and the mainstream media overall

00:04:02.620 are always projecting. 0.85

00:04:04.800 They call Trump a liar. 0.93

00:04:05.840 They lie more than Trump. 0.98

00:04:07.180 They say that Trump is behaving in an immature manner.

00:04:10.340 They behave in a much more immature manner. 0.63

00:04:12.400 They say Trump is vulgar. 0.95

00:04:14.300 They're more vulgar.

00:04:15.560 I mean, he says, what, what are we?

00:04:16.720 What are we, in, in middle school?

00:04:18.160 What the hell? 1.00

00:04:19.800 What is this crap? 1.00

00:04:20.800 He says, crap later on in the year. 1.00

00:04:22.640 What, what is he stumbles? 0.99

00:04:24.060 He's silent.

00:04:24.760 He's befuddled.

00:04:25.500 He says, like.

00:04:26.680 What is this like?

00:04:27.860 Like, what is...

00:04:30.380 Yeah, you are behaving like you're in junior high school, Don Lemon.

00:04:34.840 He says in there, he says, I can't believe I actually have to cover this.

00:04:37.700 You don't have to cover it.

00:04:39.340 This is not news.

00:04:40.220 This is a Twitter account run by one of the Trump campaign officials

00:04:44.240 tweeting out a funny meme on the internet, which is made for memes.

00:04:48.340 That's not news.

00:04:49.460 You don't have to cover that at all.

00:04:50.780 You're choosing to cover that because you're a fake news organization.

00:04:54.300 So you don't want to cover the good jobs numbers.

00:04:56.680 You don't want to cover the devastating Horowitz testimony.

00:04:59.880 The Nets didn't even cover the Horowitz testimony.

00:05:02.620 They've been streaming the ridiculous impeachment testimony,

00:05:06.380 back-to-back wall-to-wall coverage for weeks now.

00:05:09.700 And then the devastating Horowitz testimony on the abuses in the FBI and the DOJ.

00:05:15.040 Well, that one they can't cover.

00:05:16.180 They don't have time.

00:05:16.840 They've got to cover memes on Twitter instead.

00:05:20.140 And it gets worse than that.

00:05:21.660 The news stories get even worse than that.

00:05:23.840 We'll start with the Horowitz testimony,

00:05:25.500 but then we'll go through a whole confection of lies.

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00:07:15.020 So beyond Don Lemon's meltdown on CNN,

00:07:19.820 you saw when you, when you looked really closely into the media,

00:07:23.580 which were basically blocking out the Horowitz testimony,

00:07:26.000 when you were streaming it from C-SPAN and getting it on the internet,

00:07:29.340 you could see that the media story on this whole three-year witch hunt,

00:07:37.520 I'll use Trump's term, because Trump's term is right.

00:07:40.340 This whole three-year witch hunt, the media story collapsed.

00:07:43.640 And it collapsed in particular with the testimony of the Justice Department Inspector General,

00:07:49.340 Michael Horowitz.

00:07:50.740 So the mainstream media have been telling us for months now

00:07:55.460 that there was no problem with the Russia investigation.

00:07:59.960 There was no, no spying on the Trump campaign.

00:08:02.480 And even if they did spy, it's not a big deal.

00:08:04.620 They've now told us since the IG released his report over just the past few days

00:08:08.280 that the IG report vindicated James Comey, vindicated the FBI officials,

00:08:13.640 vindicated all the people who were spying on the Trump campaign.

00:08:18.140 So Michael Horowitz, let's get it in your own words, the words of the Inspector General.

00:08:23.340 Did the Obama administration illegally spy on the Trump campaign?

00:08:29.160 So let's, let's play this out.

00:08:30.960 They never told Trump about the concerns.

00:08:33.040 Is it fair to say there came a point to where surveilling Carter Page became unlawful?

00:08:43.840 I will let the court decide that.

00:08:45.880 The court has this report and will make that decision.

00:08:48.480 Let's put it this way.

00:08:49.400 If you don't have a legal foundation to surveil somebody and you keep doing it, is that bad?

00:08:55.620 Absolutely.

00:08:56.960 Is that spying?

00:08:59.420 It's, it's not, it's illegal surveillance.

00:09:02.020 It's not court authorized surveillance.

00:09:03.160 Whatever illegal surveillance means, they did it.

00:09:06.500 I love this answer because Michael Horowitz wants to be measured.

00:09:12.080 He doesn't want to be partisan.

00:09:13.260 He's the Inspector General, for goodness sake.

00:09:15.240 The media have just been talking about what a great guy he is because his report that nobody

00:09:18.840 has read, his 400 page report that not a soul has actually read is, is said to have vindicated

00:09:25.720 James Comey and the FBI, right?

00:09:27.500 He says, was it bad?

00:09:32.200 That's what Lindsey Graham asks Horowitz.

00:09:34.340 Was what the FBI did with regard to FISA abuse, was it bad?

00:09:38.600 Horowitz says, yes.

00:09:40.200 And he says, was it illegal?

00:09:42.580 Yes.

00:09:43.420 Was it spying?

00:09:45.860 Well, it was illegal surveillance.

00:09:48.720 Okay, fine.

00:09:49.700 You want to sound more measured.

00:09:51.080 Apparently spying is a bad word now.

00:09:53.360 William Barr, the Attorney General, made a joke about that.

00:09:55.620 He said, spying is not intrinsically a bad thing.

00:09:59.740 It depends on whether the spying was legitimately predicated.

00:10:02.520 It depends on whether the spying was legal or illegal.

00:10:05.760 So he says, it's bad, it's illegal, and it was illegal surveillance, which is to say,

00:10:11.540 illegal spying.

00:10:13.780 Okay, we've established that.

00:10:15.700 Then Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Grahambo, asks Horowitz, the media has been reporting that

00:10:22.300 your report exonerates the FBI and all those senior officials.

00:10:26.880 Does it?

00:10:27.460 Is the FBI exonerated?

00:10:29.420 Do they look good after this report or do they look really, really bad?

00:10:34.300 All right, Senator Tillis, very quickly.

00:10:37.340 I think Senator Blumenthal makes a good point.

00:10:39.700 How would you describe the behavior here of knowing that the subsource disavows the dossier

00:10:48.960 that was the primary reason you got a warrant, finding that a lawyer doctored an email to

00:10:54.760 keep the investigation going in a way unfair to Mr. Page?

00:11:01.060 This is not routine.

00:11:02.400 Do you agree with that?

00:11:03.380 It is definitely not.

00:11:04.600 It certainly better not be routine, and I don't know any reason to think it is routine.

00:11:09.200 Is it kind of off the charts bad?

00:11:11.440 It's pretty bad.

00:11:12.620 Thank you.

00:11:13.460 It is.

00:11:14.220 It's pretty bad.

00:11:15.100 It's kind of off the charts bad.

00:11:16.960 By the way, I should just mention, I love the Senate Judiciary Committee because you get

00:11:23.360 Lindsey Grahambo, you get Lindsey Graham 2.0, and you also get Ted Cruz.

00:11:28.180 You get Mr. Zodiac himself, who runs roughshod over the leftist case here on the IG report.

00:11:35.680 I mean, he, Cruz is so good.

00:11:37.860 He is so in his element when he's in these Senate hearings, and he goes even further than

00:11:43.620 Lindsey Graham.

00:11:44.400 He asks Horowitz, let's say that it wasn't protected people.

00:11:50.160 Let's say it wasn't James Comey and very protected people in the FBI and the DOJ who were illegally

00:11:54.720 spying on the Trump campaign.

00:11:56.020 If it were just an ordinary person, Joe Blow off the street, who falsified these court

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00:12:03.180 Horowitz's answer is terrific.

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00:14:17.760 So Cruz then goes further than Lindsey Graham.

00:14:20.220 He says, would an ordinary person who acted in the way that these FBI officials acted,

00:14:27.680 would they be prosecuted?

00:14:29.500 In any ordinary circumstance, if a private citizen did this, fabricated evidence, and

00:14:35.980 by the way, what he inserted was not just slightly wrong, it was 180 degrees opposite

00:14:40.780 what the evidence said.

00:14:42.660 So the intelligence agency said, this guy is a source, and he inserted, this guy is not

00:14:48.060 a source.

00:14:50.040 If a private citizen did that in any law enforcement investigation, if they fabricated evidence

00:14:56.500 and reversed what it said, in your experience, would that private citizen be prosecuted for

00:15:02.340 fabricating evidence, be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, be prosecuted for perjury?

00:15:07.720 They certainly would be considered for that if there was an intentional effort to deceive

00:15:12.620 the court.

00:15:13.460 On this one, I'm going to defer, because as we noted here in the sentence you indicated,

00:15:19.600 we referred that over to the attorney general and the FBI director for handling.

00:15:22.440 Now, this is an important answer here, because Horowitz, look, he's not, he doesn't want to

00:15:27.780 come off as a partisan.

00:15:28.960 So he answers right away, would, would an ordinary citizen be prosecuted for this?

00:15:34.440 Well, you know, we would certainly look into it, we would have to check it out, but I don't

00:15:38.640 want to make that final judgment because I'm the inspector general, that's not my job, that's

00:15:46.960 the job of the justice department and the attorney general.

00:15:49.280 And by the way, we've turned this matter over to the DOJ and the attorney general.

00:15:57.160 Now you see the key here, what the media have wanted you to believe since the IG report came

00:16:03.100 out is, okay, they're not going after anybody.

00:16:06.120 They didn't find evidence of this awful partisanship.

00:16:08.500 So nevermind, nothing to see here moving along.

00:16:10.740 And what Bill Barr and the prosecutor, John Durham and conservatives have been saying is

00:16:16.680 the IG is not tasked with going over and, and pursuing criminal investigations.

00:16:22.800 That's what we have this separate criminal investigation for. 0.53

00:16:25.320 And what the left has been saying is, oh, you're just trying to spin it.

00:16:28.840 You're just trying to, uh, save face after this IG report doesn't, doesn't implicate our

00:16:35.300 guys, doesn't incriminate our guys.

00:16:37.200 And now you have the IG himself saying, it's not my job to pursue criminal investigations.

00:16:42.860 That's the job of the attorney general.

00:16:44.780 And I have referred this matter to him.

00:16:47.620 It means there's some bad news coming for the people who tried to overthrow the president

00:16:52.820 and overturn a presidential election.

00:16:54.500 So what happens now?

00:16:57.420 Horowitz of his own accord, not even in the questioning, but in his own statement, admitted

00:17:04.040 a bombshell yesterday.

00:17:05.340 He admitted that the warrant to spy on the Trump campaign came entirely from the Democrat

00:17:12.020 DNC, Hillary Clinton funded Steele dossier, 100%.

00:17:17.880 For example, the Crossfire Hurricane team obtained information from Steele's primary subsource

00:17:24.360 in January, 2017, that raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele reporting.

00:17:30.600 This was particularly noteworthy because the FISA applications relied entirely on information

00:17:37.920 from the, from the Steele, I'm sorry, from the primary subsource's reporting to support

00:17:43.700 the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential

00:17:50.280 election activities.

00:17:51.680 However, the FBI did not share this information with department lawyers, and it was therefore

00:17:58.440 omitted from the last two renewal applications.

00:18:01.440 Wow.

00:18:03.440 What that means is, you had the Steele dossier.

00:18:08.120 This was contracted through Fusion GPS by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC.

00:18:12.880 They engaged with a foreign, a former foreign intelligence analyst who himself was dealing

00:18:18.980 with even other foreign intelligence sources, namely in Russia.

00:18:22.440 And they compiled this hit, hit piece, this oppo uncorroborated document on President Trump.

00:18:30.700 These crooked officials at the FBI then used the Democrat funded oppo research as the entire

00:18:37.180 basis to spy on the Trump campaign.

00:18:40.740 And then when it became clear that so much of this was bunk, that it was unwarranted, that

00:18:47.160 the, the spying on Carter Page, generally speaking, was unwarranted.

00:18:51.560 They omitted all of that information, including their source, including the funding for their

00:18:57.020 source from the FISA application.

00:19:00.680 That's a few too many errors to chalk it up to accidents.

00:19:04.260 That's a little too specific in those errors to chalk it up to accidents.

00:19:09.220 This stinks to high heaven, which is why I strongly suspect Michael Horowitz included that

00:19:15.500 in his statement and why he mentioned that this has been referred for criminal investigation

00:19:19.420 at the level of the attorney general.

00:19:21.760 And that is what we're going to see coming up.

00:19:25.660 On top of all of this, as the whole Russia hoax formally collapses, the whole predicate,

00:19:33.000 the whole basis for spying on the Trump campaign collapses.

00:19:35.900 There is a report out of the Office of Management and Budget.

00:19:38.520 The Office of Management and Budget out of the White House releases a legal memo

00:19:43.880 on the Ukraine issue.

00:19:46.520 So not Russia, not the three years ago attempt to overthrow Trump, but the three weeks ago

00:19:51.840 attempt to overthrow Trump.

00:19:52.940 The current attempt, they released a legal memo indicating that the delay in US aid to

00:19:59.080 Ukraine, which ostensibly was the source of this whole nonsense, was completely routine. 0.92

00:20:05.500 Completely routine.

00:20:06.480 Here is what the OMB released.

00:20:07.880 For decades, OMB has routinely used its apportionment authority to prevent funds from being used.

00:20:13.880 Often, in managing appropriations, OMB must briefly pause an agency's legal ability

00:20:19.520 to spend those funds for a number of reasons, including to ensure that the funds are being

00:20:23.840 spent efficiently, that they are being spent in accordance with statutory directives,

00:20:28.360 or to assess how or whether funds should be used for a particular activity.

00:20:35.920 Routine.

00:20:37.080 Normal.

00:20:37.840 Happens all the time.

00:20:38.680 Now, we should have already known this because the Democrats actually are not pursuing the

00:20:46.980 Ukraine issue as the basis for impeachment.

00:20:49.340 They could have.

00:20:49.960 They could have charged Trump with bribery.

00:20:52.320 They could have charged Trump with extortion in regard to his phone call with Ukraine.

00:20:55.960 They didn't do it because they don't have any evidence for that.

00:20:58.640 So instead, they're charging with two articles of impeachment.

00:21:01.280 Abuse of power over, I don't know, whatever.

00:21:04.080 Shrug.

00:21:04.440 I mean, it's as vague a charge as you can get, and obstruction of Congress because only

00:21:11.080 some people testified before the impeachment inquiry.

00:21:15.900 By the way, those people, all of whom either hadn't talked to Trump about Ukraine or said

00:21:20.300 explicitly that there was no quid pro quo from Trump's mouth.

00:21:22.960 But because of that, because only some people testified, that's obstruction of Congress,

00:21:27.660 which, by the way, is the president's job, is to obstruct Congress.

00:21:30.800 So we already should have known this Ukraine thing is bunk, but we get this memo out of

00:21:34.740 the OMB, and guess what the news reports?

00:21:37.300 Absolutely nothing.

00:21:38.180 The media won't report on this story.

00:21:40.200 It gets even worse, though, because yesterday, the New York Times ran a piece that was designed

00:21:46.300 in many ways, and it was received in many ways, to make Trump look like Adolf Hitler, and the

00:21:52.040 story was completely false.

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00:23:19.140 A major fake news story coming out of the New York Times yesterday.

00:23:24.440 Anyway, this was the tweet that the Times sent out.

00:23:28.620 President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just

00:23:34.960 a religion, bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out boycott Israel movements

00:23:40.140 on college campuses.

00:23:41.560 Now, in the New York Times' defense, I can't believe I'm uttering that statement.

00:23:46.200 They do frame the second half of this story as a help from the White House for the Jewish

00:23:55.160 people, for Jewish Americans.

00:23:57.660 That's the second half of the story.

00:23:59.080 The first half of the story includes what should be just the facts.

00:24:02.860 President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just

00:24:07.800 a religion.

00:24:10.180 This caused a lot of concern, a lot of hysteria on the left because it evoked images of Nazi

00:24:16.360 Germany, othering Jews and making them seem not American, not part of this country. 0.96

00:24:22.900 This is just another step in those brown shirt Trump supporters campaign of anti-Semitism and

00:24:28.620 Nazism, right? 0.88

00:24:29.900 Molly Jong Fast, who is a left-wing writer, she tweeted out, quote, my nationality is American

00:24:36.540 and this feels like it's ultimately going to be bad for Jews.

00:24:41.200 A lot of other people were tweeting out all sorts of things.

00:24:44.560 This is how it begins, this is how it began in Germany, they're going to be othered, it's 1.00

00:24:49.900 in Germany you had to have Jewish on your passport and that's what America's coming to. 0.98

00:24:55.840 And then it turned out, the story's completely false.

00:24:59.020 If you read the executive order, Trump did not define Judaism as a nationality.

00:25:06.520 If you read the executive order, all he said was that under Title VI, where you can't discriminate

00:25:14.000 against people on the basis of race or nationality.

00:25:16.840 It doesn't say that you can't discriminate against people on the basis of religion.

00:25:20.800 Trump said that his administration will treat Jews for the purposes of these civil rights

00:25:28.900 protections as though they had the same protections as people on the basis of race or nationality.

00:25:35.940 A wonderful thing, very nice thing to do for the Jewish people.

00:25:38.920 Obviously, there were a lot of Jewish activists who were in the White House when President Trump

00:25:44.580 was signing this.

00:25:46.100 It was the left and the Times kind of started it, but it was the left more broadly.

00:25:51.560 They were actually even more guilty of this than the New York Times.

00:25:54.860 They took a story that was about Trump helping Jews and they managed to turn it, not just a

00:26:00.820 little bit, but 180 degrees in the opposite direction and turn it into a story about how 0.96

00:26:06.620 Trump is a Nazi.

00:26:08.680 That is what we're up against. 1.00

00:26:11.040 That is what the media do.

00:26:13.220 They have no credibility on this stuff whatsoever.

00:26:19.580 What does this mean for you and me?

00:26:21.680 What this means is we have to not be taken in by the fancy people who wear the ties and the

00:26:28.540 jackets who look like Don Lemon.

00:26:30.600 Don Lemon looks so great, doesn't he?

00:26:32.280 He looks like such a serious guy.

00:26:34.220 He's a handsome guy.

00:26:35.800 He's got that very serious face.

00:26:37.960 He's got his jacket on and his tie.

00:26:40.180 So he would never lie to you.

00:26:41.420 He would never behave like a child on television.

00:26:44.380 He would never just be a hack partisan who's attacking the president for partisan reasons.

00:26:51.820 Except that's what they all do.

00:26:53.800 That's what the whole mainstream media does.

00:26:55.260 And time after time, I think even many conservatives want to give deference or subconsciously or just

00:27:05.780 brought in to give deference to what you read in the paper, what you read online, what you

00:27:08.920 hear from the TV news.

00:27:10.380 There's no reason to do that.

00:27:12.260 At this point, the partisan political operatives and politicians in the Trump administration have

00:27:19.580 much, much more credibility than the New York Times and CNN and the Washington Post and

00:27:24.340 all the others.

00:27:25.420 President Trump's Twitter account.

00:27:26.960 I'm not saying Trump never exaggerates.

00:27:28.820 I'm not saying that President Trump never stretches the truth.

00:27:32.140 President Trump's Twitter account has a greater record of honesty and journalistic credibility

00:27:38.640 than these partisan hacks in the mainstream media.

00:27:43.340 That's what they are.

00:27:44.180 And yet they won't admit it.

00:27:46.560 So what we need to do is tune out of that stuff.

00:27:50.340 All right.

00:27:52.020 It's, I think it's perfectly great to read honestly left-wing news sources and opinion

00:27:56.660 sources.

00:27:57.240 And I think you should read honestly right-wing news sources and commentary.

00:28:02.980 But for the people who are pretending to report the news, they have no credibility.

00:28:06.860 They have hollowed out these institutions from within.

00:28:09.600 They are just zombie New York Times and zombie Washington Post who are not who they used to

00:28:15.820 be.

00:28:16.720 We will get to the loneliness epidemic because it actually, the loneliness epidemic does

00:28:22.660 tie back into all the kind of political questions and political philosophical debates we've been

00:28:28.060 having all week on everything from the role of government to internet porn.

00:28:31.620 We'll get to that in a second.

00:28:32.760 We'll get to the mailbag.

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00:29:58.700 Before we go to the mailbag, I have to mention this survey because it tells us a lot about

00:30:07.280 our culture and it actually tells us about some of the political debates we've been having.

00:30:11.160 A study out of George Mason University of 1,200 people, it's 1,200 Americans, found that

00:30:17.880 one in three young people below the age of 25 feel lonely, whereas only 11% of adults older than 65

00:30:28.780 feel the same.

00:30:31.000 This is on top of a survey out of the United Kingdom, which found that 40%, 4-0, of young

00:30:37.580 people, 16 to 24, feel lonely often or very often.

00:30:40.860 That's compared to 27% of adults over 75.

00:30:44.960 This is very strange.

00:30:46.680 This is the opposite of what we should expect.

00:30:48.940 Historically speaking, older people, people of a certain age, you know, beginning 65 plus,

00:30:55.480 certainly by 75, certainly into your 80s, feel lonely.

00:30:59.540 They begin to feel lonely because they're kind of set in their ways.

00:31:03.300 It's harder to make friends as you get older.

00:31:05.820 Perhaps they've had loved ones or friends or spouses die.

00:31:08.280 And so, just naturally, you feel lonelier at that point.

00:31:12.360 Very odd for young people in their 20s, in their teens, to feel lonelier than senior citizens.

00:31:21.940 Why is that happening?

00:31:24.840 Why is it?

00:31:25.780 I mean, the researchers conclude our research shows that loneliness is a subjective mental

00:31:29.140 state rather than an age-related symptom.

00:31:33.020 Why is it?

00:31:34.000 Why is this happening?

00:31:34.700 On top of this, we find antidepressant use up 65% in 15 years, the highest rises among

00:31:40.540 young Americans.

00:31:41.360 Teen suicide up 70%, 0, 7-0% over just the past few years.

00:31:47.300 Marriage rates declining, birth rates declining.

00:31:49.760 We are very lonely.

00:31:51.680 We're very, very lonely.

00:31:53.000 You can look at the technological aspects that isolate us.

00:31:55.840 You can look at some of the social aspects that isolate us.

00:32:00.020 I think there's an ideological aspect, too.

00:32:03.960 It gets to what we've been talking about all week when we're talking about anything from

00:32:09.580 internet pornography to the role of government in politics and culture.

00:32:14.720 You know, I tweeted out a couple days ago.

00:32:17.020 I asked, what is the purpose of government?

00:32:18.880 What is the primary purpose of government?

00:32:20.640 And I listed liberty, equality, justice, and other.

00:32:24.520 And you could add other.

00:32:26.300 Liberty won by a mile.

00:32:28.780 It's like 61% to 20%, something like that.

00:32:32.820 20% said justice.

00:32:34.700 60 some odd percent said liberty.

00:32:36.760 2% said equality.

00:32:37.860 Good job, guys.

00:32:38.400 You got that one right.

00:32:40.380 Now, I think some people said liberty because liberty is such a broadly defined word.

00:32:45.760 The great conservative political philosopher Edmund Burke said, of all the political concepts,

00:32:50.080 liberty has indefinite numbers, infinite numbers of definitions.

00:32:54.520 When we talk about liberty, the kind of liberty that we like, we're talking about ordered liberty.

00:33:00.920 We're not just talking about going to Drag Queen Story Hour every night.

00:33:03.640 We're talking about the kind of liberty that allows you to flourish and live a good life

00:33:07.160 and order your will towards something that's good and not toward, you know, just sitting

00:33:11.380 in a ditch somewhere doing drugs and looking at internet porn.

00:33:18.000 Even so, we should be more precise about our language.

00:33:21.540 This wasn't a true question.

00:33:22.920 The purpose of government has a real answer, especially in America.

00:33:27.200 The father of our constitution, James Madison, answered this in Federalist 51.

00:33:32.240 James Madison, writing in Fed 51, wrote, justice is the end of government.

00:33:36.640 It is the end of civil society.

00:33:38.640 It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

00:33:45.300 So liberty plays a very important role in justice.

00:33:47.340 You're not going to have justice without liberty.

00:33:50.820 But merely unfettered individual liberty, especially if it's unmoored from the moral order, is not the purpose of the American government.

00:33:59.480 It's not the purpose of any real government.

00:34:01.480 And the founding fathers never thought it was.

00:34:03.060 And it's a very recent idea that it was.

00:34:05.420 This has happened over the past 40, 50 years.

00:34:08.200 There's actually been a sort of consensus on the right and left.

00:34:10.700 And the consensus has been that the purpose of government is liberty.

00:34:14.240 Even the left believes this.

00:34:15.640 They're incoherent about it, but they believe it.

00:34:17.580 So for the left, they say, we want totally expanded social liberty.

00:34:22.480 Sexual liberation, women's liberation, abortion on demand, reproductive freedom is what they call it, right?

00:34:28.180 So they want social liberty like redefining marriage, abortion all the time, porn everywhere, casual sex, all those sort of things.

00:34:36.560 What conservatives have done is they've taken the flip side of that coin.

00:34:40.440 They've said, yes, the purpose of government is just untrammeled liberty.

00:34:43.520 And so we want economic liberty, tax cuts, deregulation, free trade.

00:34:47.040 That all puts the cart before the horse because liberty is very, very important for a purpose.

00:34:56.240 And it's not, don't take my word for it.

00:34:58.260 This is not some crazy reactionary view.

00:34:59.960 This is what James Madison, who is the father of the Constitution, said in the Federalist Papers, which unfortunately nobody reads.

00:35:06.540 So very few people are aware of this.

00:35:09.220 There is something bigger than that, which is justice.

00:35:11.740 There is something bigger than that, which is call it ordered liberty, social liberty.

00:35:15.540 Secondly, the recognition that we're not all just atoms floating around in space, that we actually do live in society and we don't want to be tyrannized.

00:35:22.620 We don't want to live in some collectivist hellscape.

00:35:25.380 We want our rights to be protected.

00:35:27.580 We want our liberties to be protected.

00:35:29.220 But we actually do have bonds to one another, to our families, to our communities, to our state, to our government, to our people, to our civic associations.

00:35:36.600 We have to recognize that because if you simply take this hyper-individualistic, atomistic idea of liberty as the total end of government, what you're going to end up with is a loneliness epidemic.

00:35:49.780 What you're going to end up with is a government that says that we have the right, the duty to define reality for ourselves.

00:35:57.520 That's what Justice Kennedy said in Planned Parenthood v. Casey decades ago, that we have the right to define reality for ourselves, define what it is to be a man or a woman, or that a baby is not really a baby.

00:36:10.400 And that, of course, is crazy.

00:36:12.540 Libertinism is not liberty.

00:36:14.860 And you don't want to have a lonely country.

00:36:16.200 You want to have a good country.

00:36:17.200 You want to have a free country.

00:36:18.080 We all love freedom, but freedom has a higher purpose.

00:36:21.760 I have a piece on this at the Daily Wire if you want some more on it, which is called The Porn Debate Isn't Really About Porn.

00:36:28.360 But it speaks to a lot of the social ills that we're seeing.

00:36:31.260 And we've got to start taking a deeper view of politics than maybe we have in the past couple decades.

00:36:36.820 We have to start taking the deeper view that we had 50 years ago before our culture and our politics got so hollowed out and so shallow.

00:36:43.960 Let's get to the mailbag.

00:36:46.320 From David. 0.96

00:36:48.660 Hail Michael Knowles, king of trolls.

00:36:51.720 I was wondering if you could explain what critical theory is.

00:36:55.880 It gets mentioned very often, but rarely explained.

00:37:00.760 Yes, critical theory is used a lot.

00:37:02.540 Critical theory is a highly politicized academic approach that was developed by Marxists of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s.

00:37:12.080 It has been popularly referred to by the literary critic Harold Bloom, who recently died and was a lifelong liberal.

00:37:19.880 He referred to it as the school of resentment.

00:37:22.840 Critical theory is where you just deconstruct your culture.

00:37:25.640 Where, for instance, you approach literature not as you should, which is through love.

00:37:31.940 The love of the poetry.

00:37:33.560 The love of the images.

00:37:34.860 The love of human nature.

00:37:35.960 The love of the story.

00:37:37.560 The love of academic pursuit.

00:37:39.460 Not through that, but through criticism.

00:37:43.340 Resentment. 0.91

00:37:44.300 You read Walt Whitman to find out how racist and sexist and evil he was.

00:37:49.860 And this has been the approach, not just to literature, but to history, to political science, to sociology, to so many of these academic departments.

00:37:59.380 Critical theory has taken over all of the academy right now.

00:38:04.560 And it's a very bad idea.

00:38:05.720 Not merely because it's so shallow and ideological and partisan, but because it actually inverts the purpose of learning.

00:38:14.760 You know, any theory of education or theory of knowledge that begins with the premise that you have to hate what you're studying is dead wrong.

00:38:23.080 The only way that you're going to learn anything, the only way that you're going to grow in knowledge, is through love.

00:38:28.580 Actually, somebody who explains this very well is Dante, speaking of great literature.

00:38:36.200 Speaking of people who aren't read anymore.

00:38:37.800 You know, what Dante shows us is that unity of learning, of growth in knowledge, of education, and of love.

00:38:48.000 The famous image that ends the poem is the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

00:38:53.860 That there is this love that comes with it.

00:38:55.920 So, especially with Dante.

00:38:57.440 I love Dante.

00:38:58.240 When I read Dante, it is because I'm drawn by a love of that.

00:39:01.780 And that love leads me to a deeper understanding.

00:39:05.440 It leads me to wisdom.

00:39:06.580 That's what should be going on in the Academy, and it's not.

00:39:09.620 And critical theory plays a huge role in that.

00:39:12.000 From Justin.

00:39:12.840 What is your favorite Christmas movie?

00:39:16.000 That's a tough one.

00:39:18.220 No, I guess it's not.

00:39:19.220 Jingle All the Way, obviously.

00:39:20.400 It's the greatest one of all.

00:39:21.520 What an amazing movie.

00:39:22.440 You get the governator.

00:39:24.140 You get a superhero character.

00:39:26.540 It's just an amazing movie.

00:39:27.660 Jingle All the Way.

00:39:28.960 Next question from Adium.

00:39:30.780 As a fan of Gavin McGinnis, I've heard a lot about the no fap and no wanks movements.

00:39:38.280 Well, I guess I just said those things on air.

00:39:40.320 The fact that he is against porn is often trotted out as proof of his Nazi nature.

00:39:46.080 Why does the left love porn so much? 0.61

00:39:49.180 This is unbelievable. 0.69

00:39:50.100 I really like Gavin.

00:39:52.280 You know, you get Gavin, who is a comedian, who's telling people, don't look at porn because 0.98

00:39:56.680 it's going to make you into like a weak little creepy degenerate. 0.92

00:40:00.520 And they say, see, if you don't look at runaway girls being abused on video all the time, 0.99

00:40:06.580 you're a Nazi. 0.86

00:40:07.540 That's not a very compelling argument. 0.62

00:40:09.300 I think it's obviously right.

00:40:10.760 Porn is a major social problem.

00:40:12.540 Regardless of what you think about whether the government should get involved on the local

00:40:15.860 or the state or federal level or not get involved at all.

00:40:18.360 I think we can all admit it's not good. 0.95

00:40:21.300 You don't want to be a wanker. 0.93

00:40:22.460 You don't want to be a guy who closes the blinds and looks at poor runaway girls having strange 0.97

00:40:27.000 things done to them by strange men on high resolution video.

00:40:30.040 That's not a good thing, right?

00:40:32.280 So Gavin comes out there and says, hey, don't do that.

00:40:35.920 And the left calls him a Nazi.

00:40:37.920 They call a lot of people Nazis. 0.98

00:40:39.720 They do it because the left requires sexual libertinism. 1.00

00:40:45.740 The left really benefits from this libertinism.

00:40:49.380 One, because it compromises you.

00:40:52.100 So they'll say, you actually, some people who ostensibly are on the right wing even said

00:40:56.220 this in the porn debate.

00:40:57.000 They said, if you've ever looked at porn, you can't say that we should ban porn.

00:41:03.340 If you've ever looked at porn, who are you to say porn is a bad thing?

00:41:06.960 You're doing it. 1.00

00:41:07.940 You're a hypocrite. 1.00

00:41:08.760 Shut up. 1.00

00:41:09.160 So the left wants you to do that. 0.99

00:41:11.440 And the left also promotes libertinism because the left exists to break down the traditional

00:41:17.540 order.

00:41:18.320 The left exists in opposition to the tradition.

00:41:22.520 So any way to break down that tradition, whether that's marriage, whether that's traditional

00:41:26.340 relationships, whether that's traditional sexual desires, whether that's traditional

00:41:30.100 behavior, which says, hey, maybe restrain your appetites and your lusts and your sexual

00:41:35.680 appetite, they don't want any of those restraints.

00:41:39.620 They want to break down all of the restraints so that once the traditional structures, which they blame for all the evils of the world, the patriarchy and the hierarchies and the thisarchy and the thatarchy, once that's all breaking down, then they will just have a ton of atomized individuals living in cultural rubble.

00:41:55.160 And from there, they can build their utopia.

00:41:57.720 From Rustem, dear Michael, out of the broom closet, Knowles, I'd like your thoughts on a debate that is currently raging in my country, the Netherlands, where a child born with severe and usually terminal birth defects can be euthanized.

00:42:11.840 The government in my country is considering easing up the laws that allow for the murder of those children by physicians.

00:42:18.240 I believe this practice is wrong, but anyone that shares my view is castigated as an uncaring demon that wants to let children suffer.

00:42:24.780 What do you think?

00:42:25.680 As always, love the show and a Merry Christmas.

00:42:27.840 I think woe to you that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

00:42:36.840 I'm not surprised at all that these genuine ghouls who are advocating the legalization of killing children are calling you a bad guy because you want to protect children.

00:42:48.380 That always happens.

00:42:49.900 It's the nature of the world.

00:42:52.200 And obviously, the euthanasia laws are abhorrent.

00:42:57.060 They are indefensible.

00:42:58.260 This is what happens when you compromise on human dignity in your politics.

00:43:02.720 So it's what happens when you embrace abortion, then why shouldn't you embrace euthanasia?

00:43:08.180 You're saying you can kill innocent people at one stage of life.

00:43:11.020 Why not at another?

00:43:12.100 And if you've embraced euthanasia for old people who are going to die in three days, why not embrace euthanasia for people who might die in three months? 0.96

00:43:20.120 If they're suffering, why not embrace euthanasia for people who are depressed?

00:43:24.420 Why not embrace euthanasia for people who are born defective in their minds? 1.00

00:43:29.420 I don't think they're defective in an ultimate sense, but they seem to.

00:43:34.140 They say, yeah, ultimately you're defective.

00:43:35.940 You're not worth life. 1.00

00:43:37.480 So why not kill them even if they're children? 1.00

00:43:39.880 Netherlands has been leading the way down that dark path. 0.99

00:43:44.860 All of that is premised on the idea that suffering is intrinsically evil and the primary purpose, if not the only purpose of life, is to feel pleasure.

00:43:56.380 And this is such a perverse idea.

00:43:59.120 The purpose of life is not to feel pleasure and suffering is not only not intrinsically evil, but it can actually be helpful because it helps us grow.

00:44:09.400 It deepens our experience of life.

00:44:11.700 It prompts the moral quality of how you respond to suffering.

00:44:16.520 Do you respond in a bad way or do you respond in a good way?

00:44:19.440 Also, suffering is a fact of life.

00:44:25.720 This is what's so insidious about this, is everybody suffers a lot of the time.

00:44:31.000 You don't know that from Instagram.

00:44:32.520 You don't know that when you see people and they tell you, oh, everything's great.

00:44:35.260 I feel a lot of people are suffering a lot of the time.

00:44:38.440 That is a fact of human life.

00:44:42.740 And so if you say that if someone suffers, they can end their lives, if you accept that premise,

00:44:48.720 then it's just a matter of time before they come for us.

00:44:53.080 Whether through, in the case of the Netherlands, actually holding people down and euthanizing them, meaning murdering them, as has happened,

00:45:00.880 or through the cultural pressure and the cultural persuasion to off yourself if you're not feeling happy all the time.

00:45:09.040 Very, very bad situation.

00:45:10.540 Good job standing up for life and for the good.

00:45:14.060 From Martin, last question.

00:45:17.200 Does the Constitution need new amendments of separation of powers between the media and the politicians?

00:45:23.400 That's a great question.

00:45:25.420 I, you know, I have two thoughts on this.

00:45:27.660 Obviously, it's unfortunate that the media are such hacks for the politicians that they so carry water for the Democratic Party.

00:45:37.500 That is an unfortunate thing.

00:45:39.060 On the other hand, I got to hand it to reporters who go out there and get their stories.

00:45:45.220 You know, in some ways, you get the stories by getting drinks with a politician.

00:45:49.660 Sometimes a little bit more than that.

00:45:51.340 At the very least, befriending a politician, getting in their good graces.

00:45:54.620 I mean, good, dogged reporters are actually able to kind of penetrate these circles and get good scoops.

00:46:02.020 I think that's a wonderful thing.

00:46:04.280 We don't need to change the Constitution.

00:46:06.300 The media are not addressed in the Constitution.

00:46:07.820 But we should have a code of ethics for journalists.

00:46:10.760 That would be a nice thing.

00:46:12.220 And for the journalistic outlets that do have codes of ethics, New York Times, Washington Post,

00:46:16.280 it would be nice if they actually abided by them.

00:46:19.940 And if they don't, we'll just have to tune them out.

00:46:22.340 I guess we're already doing that.

00:46:24.640 Today, you'll have to tune me out right now.

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00:46:27.920 Have a good weekend.

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00:47:29.940 Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:47:33.560 What a week this has been.

00:47:34.960 The left has covered itself in shame with its sham impeachment.

00:47:38.500 The press has not only been caught lying, but is now lying about lying, and then lying about lying about having lied.

00:47:43.700 And yet Trump goes on appointing judges, making the economy sing, and defending our civil rights.

00:47:48.880 What a time to be alive.

00:47:50.700 We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:47:52.700 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 12, 2019

Ep. 465 - The Media Lie About Everything

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